Support for gay-friendly Ugandan bishop — needed?

Supporters of gay-friendly Ugandan Bishop Christopher Senyonjo are campaigning for the praiseworthy goal of keeping him out of a Ugandan prison, but it’s not clear that any of his work with LGBT Ugandans actually violates the country’s new anti-gay law.

Senyonjo, 82, has previously been honored as grand marshal of the San Francisco pride parade and played a prominent, compassionate role in the documentary film “Call Me Kuchu,” about the life and death of Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato. He has been expelled from the homophobic Anglican Church of Uganda because he ministers to homosexuals.

The Watchdog site says, “Will you join us in sending a message of thanks and support to Rev. Senyonjo, and a warning to President Museveni?”:

PETITION TO PRESIDENT MUSEVENI: We stand behind Rev. Christopher Senyonjo in embracing love and community over hatred and violence. Listen to his pleas for tolerance, and don’t imprison him for standing up for the LGBT community!

Ugandan Bishops calls for genocide as part of Easter message… In Tororo District, Uganda, Bishop Emmanuel Obbo, the Archbishop of Tororo Archdiocese, urged every citizen who supported the anti-homosexuality law to lay down greed, corruption and “PUT THEM TO DEATH and let generosity rise up within us and flow out in abundance.”http://stopugandanantihomosexualitybill.blogspot.co.uk/